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Word: marker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FAGGOT!" was written in black marker next to the House Crew notice board. On another wall, the words "FAG," "PUSSY!," and "Mother-fucker" were scribled...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Vandals Leave Anti-Gay Graffiti | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...time of the end, apparently, was last week. A recently posted "Red Alert" announcement on the group's Website hailed the Hale-Bopp comet as the "marker" the members were waiting for. In this belief, at least, Heaven's Gate cultists were not alone. According to a popular theory circulating on the Internet, a spaceship is hidden behind the comet--whether inhabited by benign or evil aliens is unclear. Astronomers say the image behind the comet in some photographs is a mere star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...physical container or body," they wrote. "We will rendezvous in the 'clouds' (a giant mothership) for our briefing and journey to the Kingdom of the Literal Heavens." Members believed that the Hale-Bopp comet, which visited Earth last week for the first time in 2,400 years, was a "marker" that the mothership had come to free them from the "Human Evolutionary Level." This was the time...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Heaven Help Us | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

What is commonly referred to in corporate technology lingo as the "Year 2000 problem" arises from the fact that many mainframe computer systems use a two-digit date marker for the year, with the assumption that the first two digits are one and nine. When the year 2000 comes around, thousands of computers will think that 00 means...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: techTALK | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity to attain the afterlife. "We fully desire, expect, and look forward to boarding a spacecraft from the Next Level very soon (in our physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been waiting for. . . We are happily prepared to leave "this world' and go with Ti's crew." That craft was to be lurking in the wake of the Hale-Bopp Comet, apparently ready to take willing members along on a passage to bliss. But as with all religions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Window | 3/27/1997 | See Source »

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